It is not a sword, it is a foil.
Foiled again.
He Foil’ed the crime
The last thing I expect from the lamestream media is accuracy regarding weapons.
You beat me to the dig on the st00pid media too. A Foil is no sword.
A foil and an epee are quite different. Foils are very light ‘weapons’ which really couldn’t do much harm if you tried (short of putting out an eye). If you took the button off an epee, it would be quite sufficient to kill someone. Even used to strike sideways, it would be plenty painful. Epees are much, much heavier than foils, and do really count as being swords.
Actually it the guard looks more like an Epee.
These things need to be regulated.
The word “epee” in French means “sword.”
It is much heavier than a foil and is the “short sword” in fencing. (The sabre being the “long sword.”)
One should pick their nits carefully.
No, an épée. Of the three fencing “weapons”, and épée is the one that would be most capable of doing real damage: the blade is stiff unlike a foil or (fencing) sabre and much heavier than either of the others. A solid thrust to the abdomen from a practice épée with the rubber tip removed (or an electronic épée with the scoring-button assembly removed) could easily impale a person not wearing heavy clothing even though the end is not sharp, only of very small cross-section.
It is not a foil, it is an épée.
An epee is not a foil. And both foils and epees are swords.
Well, he certainly foiled those robbers! Great job! Medias should write more often about these types of heroics, which do happen daily with guns.
Technically it is an epee. A foil has a smaller bell among other differences. Martially it would be classified as a steel whip. As such, in a real combat situation, saber techniques would be of more use to do actual damage. Broken fingers are common in saber fencing.
The pokie pokie of foil and epee is less likely to do any real damage. Though, if the steal breaks and a point is formed, then it can do some real damage and has even killed in real life.